Movie review: The Last Winter
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
The Last Winter is an eco-supernatural horror film about oil workers in the Arctic who are stalked by a vengeful spirit determined to keep them from exploiting the oil. Despite this promising premise, the movie has big problems...
Review: The Crash of Flight 3804 by Charlotte Dennett
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
In her concluding remarks, Charlotte makes no bones about America's future prospects as a player in the oil game. She sees America steadily losing ground as the costs of its empire and its endless oil wars inexorably mount, and as more and more countries make deals with its oil-rich adversaries.
Review: The Disappearing Shore by Roberta Park
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
For a book that can be breezed through in a couple of hours, this pseudonymously written novella manages to plumb the modern-day human dilemma with surprising depth and emotion.
Movie review: Snowpiercer
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
If you feel like some gritty, thrilling, eco-dystopian cinema, this currently trending cli-fi epic is available on multiple streaming platforms.
Review: An Archdruid’s Tales by John Michael Greer
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
In his anthology An Archdruid’s Tales, Greer seeks to use fiction, together with a few nonfiction forays into future scenarios, as a means of painting a more accurate picture of what lies ahead for industrial civilization.
Review of Love in the Ruins (Short Story and Poetry Collection Edited by John Michael Greer)
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Perhaps the most striking feature of this anthology of stories and verse about romance in the deindustrial future is its rich assortment of tones and styles. Some stories are charming, others throb with as much trauma as passion and still others feel as timeless as myths.
Review: The Dream Hunt and Other Tales by Catherine McGuire
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
How will future generations fare in the world of scarcity and instability to which our present-day actions are consigning them? Catherine McGuire’s short story collection The Dream Hunt and Other Tales suggests a multitude of possible answers to this.
Movie Review: Contagion
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
When the medical thriller movie Contagion came out in 2011, it was widely praised for its realistic portrayal of a global pandemic scenario. In recent weeks, as the real-life outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread around the world, there’s been a surge of renewed interest in the film.